Subj: Release of Pharmacy Enterprise Customization System (PECS) v3.0 [#156566] 22 Jul 2014 10:58:52 -0400 (EDT) 150 lines ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: G.IRM CHIEFS (NATIONAL) & STAFF G.SITEMANAGERSNATIONAL G.PATCH G.SSA G.CSPROVSYS G.PHARMACY ADPACS G.CSHDSYS G.CLIN APP COORDINATORS From: Clinical 1 Team, Clinical Product Support Release Announcement Deployment Schedule The Health Systems Release Board approved the Pharmacy Enterprise Customization System (PECS) v3.0 for National Release on June 23, 2014; the product is being turned over by Product Development's Pharmacy Reengineering (PRE) team to the System Design & Engineering (SDE) Implementation Manager (IM), and Field Operations (FO) for deployment as follows in line with the PECS v3.0 Installation Guide: The Austin Information Technology Center (AITC) will promote the product first to the Pre-Production environment and then the Production environment. The Regional Field Operations Staff will update each of the MOCHA Server Clusters hosted at AITC and the Philadelphia Information Technology Center (PITC). Exact timing of these events is yet to be determined and will be coordinated by the SDE IM in line with the AITC Release Schedule: PECS v3.0 deployment to Pre-Production PECS v3.0 deployment to Production Appropriate announcements will be distributed by AITC and Regional staff in line with normal communication procedures. If you wish to be included in these announcements, please contact the SDE IM. The Software Product PECS v3.0: Pharmacy Enterprise Customization System (PECS) is a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application used to research, review, report, and manage customized drug information from First Data Bank's (FDB) MedKnowledge Framework (formerly Drug Information Framework (DIF)), which is a Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) product, used in the enhanced order checking process. The PECS application, through a web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI), allows VHA pharmacists and clinicians to research and request custom changes to Drug-Drug Interaction, Drug Pairs, Dose Range, Duplicate Therapy, and Professional Monograph records, controlling access through a role based authorization. VHA Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) periodically (as needed in support of VA procedures and priorities) prepare, review and approve the customizations, which result in VA Custom drug data, which will supersede or enhance the industry standard FDB-drug data. The purpose of this software product release is to replace the current version, PECS v2.2.1, with an enhanced version, PECS v3.0, which provides functional enhancements to Easy Search, Reports, Drug-Drug Interaction (DDI), Drug Pairs (DP), Dose Range (DR), Duplicate Therapy (DT), and Professional Monograph (PM). Architectural Enhancements for PECS v3.0 include an upgrade of the 3rd party product FDB MedKnowledge Framework to v3.3. PECS v3.0 includes several enhancements to the system to provide better data integrity. The biggest changes for this release are: Upgrade of the FDB MedKnowledge Framework COTS software from version 3.2 to version 3.3. Enhancements to query functionality to find Drug information. Enhancements to the customization of Drug information. Easy Search functionality which utilizes MOCHA Server Order Check functionality. Comparison reports for FDB Updates. Impacts to Pharmacists and Clinicians: As a PECS User, pharmacists, clinicians, and Pharmacy Benefits Management personnel on the concept detail page can hover their mouse over an icon next to any required field with changes and see the corresponding changes. As a PECS User, pharmacists, clinicians, and Pharmacy Benefits Management personnel can download an Excel report on the full customization history. As a PECS User, pharmacists, clinicians, and Pharmacy Benefits Management personnel within DP customization can search routed generic drugs and add multiple routed generic drugs pairs to the associated DDI. As a PECS User, pharmacists, clinicians, and Pharmacy Benefits Management personnel within Easy Search can: Create a query that produces a report that lists the drug pairs and their associated interactions for a Dispensable Generic Drug or a Dispensable Drug. Search for Dispensable Drugs along with Dispensable Generics. View values for DOSE HIGH, DOSE HIGH UNITS, DOSE RATE HIGH and DOSE RATE HIGH UNITS for dose range queries. MOCHA Server v2.0: The enhancements to the MOCHA Server version 2.0 software include: Upgrade FDB MedKnowledge Framework support from version 3.2 to version 3.3. Supporting the new Not-To-Exceed fields for a Dose Range. PPS-N v1.1: The only enhancement to the PPS-N version 1.1 software, beyond the currently in-production PPS-N v1.0, is: Upgrade FDB MedKnowledge Framework support from version 3.2 to version 3.3. DATUP v2.0: The only enhancement to the DATUP version 2.0 software, beyond the currently in-production DATUP v1.1, is: Upgrade FDB MedKnowledge Framework support from version 3.2 to version 3.3. Patch Information Below is a list of the Informational Patch Numbers for this deployment: PECS: PREC*3.0*1 MOCHA Server: PREM*2.0*1 PPS-N: PREN*1.1*1 DATUP: PRED*2.0*1 Documentation Note: Due to policy constraints, active links cannot be included in this document. Please copy and paste the URLs into your browser. Each project establishes a 'release baseline' at project inception. These are the documents that enter into change control at deployment. A subset of these documents accompanies the product release to the Field. This is referred to as the 'release package'. The Master Go No Go Checklist defines the Release Baseline for each Project. The Master Go No Go Testing & Release Checklist can be found at http://vaww.eie.va.gov/lifecycle/default.aspx and at http://vaww.eie.va.gov/ETS/default.aspx. The following documents support installation and administration of the product and can be found at the following URL: http://tspr.vista.med.va.gov/warboard/anotebk.asp?proj=1474&Type=Active. PECS v3.0 Implementation and Deployment Plan PECS v3.0 Training Plan PECS v3.0 Risk Management Plan PECS v3.0 System/Product Build PECS v3.0 Installation Guide PECS v3.0 User Guide PECS v3.0 Operations and Maintenance Plan PECS v3.0 Troubleshooting Guide PECS v3.0 Release Notes DATUP Local Install Guide DATUP National Install Guide DATUP v2.0 Release Notes MOCHA Server Installation Guide MOCHA Server v2.0 Release Notes